, 1887-12-01
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
prom Saturday

The new electric light plant will he
ready to turn on i'll about two weeks
The plumber revels in happiness
over theprospects OF bursting water
pipes.
Thanksgiving passed off very quiet
ly, but everybody seemed to have Il
good timo.
Tho streets are in II fine condition
and should snow fall now the sleigh
ing would be fine.
The court has got into running or
der and yesterday transacted II large
amount OF business.
Most OF the daily papers in the
northwest did not issue Thursday
The Spokane papers did.
Merchants are weary when night
comes on account of their rush during
the day waiting ON customers.
There was large attendance ut the
knights of Pythias ball, and everyone
reports having had delightful time
Thorne's "Black Flag" combination
will give performance in this city
before long at least that is the under
standing now.
The show windows about town are
gorgeous in their display of holiday
goods that appeal to the pockets OF
the man of family.
Abrahams has had handsome
new front put into his fish and game
market on Howard street, greatly I'M
proving the premises.
The Masonic lodge of this place Is
arranging to give ball some evening
next week, and the time and place Will
be announced in few days.
The streets look like an illumina-
ton ut night with the colored lanterns
hanging around to prevent teamsters
rom falling into the excavations.
The real estate agent is increasing
with remarkable rapidity. a man
could not chuck stone in II crowd
without hitting half Il dozen OF 'em.
Winter comes in this year ahead of
its usual schedule time. a chinook
is confidently expected in the near
future with IL change for the better.
1t is rather hardship for the de-
partment to be called out in cold
weather to fire that could be put out
with syringe judiciously manipulated.
The marrying season is upon us
and weddings are numerous. 1t Is
wise man who finds IL partner to get
up in the mornings and build the fire.
Murray Record: Thirteen men
are new employed on the Granite
mine. 1t is reported that there are
1000 sacks of ore ready for shipment.
The man who has tailed to get in
his winter wood will be buying on an
upward market next week. Prices
for fuel are very mercurial at this sea-
son.
All the stores are getting in large
stock of holiday goods and the win
,dows are beginning to be filled with n
3splay of more than ordinary attract
Apess.
Ae continued extension of the wa.
S,ins is giving the plant all the
wants to do, and increased
II have to be considered ut no
Y.
an, who was brought from
,.se railroad few days ago,
Thursday afternoon at the
from the effects of pneumo-
4 pleurisy.
his is the kind Of weather when II
AN looks up thermometer and
swaps expressions with everybody he
meets in reference to the chilly condi-
ton of the atmosphere.
Threatening winter does not discon.
cert the carpenters and builders, Tor
they are Knocking together houses all
over town. Spokane's growth can not
be killed by u slight frost.
A large number Of prospectors and
miners are hocking in to spend the
winter. They will lay low while snow
lasts and rush out in the spring to
find fortune-for somebody else.
Murray Record Some enterprising
citizens are agitating the subject OF
establishing a hospital at Wallace.
There is need OF such an institution on
the upper South Fork, and Wallace is
the proper place for it.
II looks as thou gh the new Grand
hotel would not be thrown open to the
public this year. But then there is
only month to wait until 1883, and
it will probably be in running order by
the lst Of January.
The coolest night of the season
made people on the streets last even.
ing draw themselves close inside OF
their overcoats A set OF ears exposed
TO the atmosphere took on carmine
cast pretty blank quick.
Crowds are daily attracted by that
IN
dow. The party who distributes the
plunder around does it in such an at.
tractive way as to catch the eyes of
wanderers on that block.
People should keep. their property
under lock and key. Sneak thieves
are in the land and nothing is too tri.
hing for them to carry OIL. Coid
weather does not prevent them from
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